"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 5/16/2015 1:58 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Fri, 15 May 2015 17:51:18 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/15/2015 4:04 AM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>>>>> Sqwertz > wrote in
>>>>> :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you seen the list of chemicals and other trash they use to treat
>>>>>> organic produce?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx...5457587ccdfec1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2bc34ed1c&rgn=div5&view=text&node=7:3.1.1.9.32&idn o=7#sg7.3.205.g.sg0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah - give me a tablespoon of all that instead!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>
>>>>> Good point. Too many people assume "organic" is equivalent to
>>>>> "natural",
>>>>> and of course, it isn't. Being just a touch cynical, I think
>>>>> "organic" is
>>>>> equivalent to "We can charge more in our stores because you people are
>>>>> ignorant."
>>>>>
>>>> Agreed. Jack up the prices, the consumer doesn't know any better.
>>>>
>>>>> The only way to know what goes into your produce is to grow your own.
>>>>>
>>>> That's absolutely true. Unless you have your own garden and know what
>>>> you put into the soil, how could you know? Slapping a label on
>>>> supermarket produce doesn't prove anything. At least, not to any
>>>> pennywise shopper.
>>>
>>> Don't you have organisations that check these claims? Or can anyone
>>> say 'organic'? In the latter case, I wouldn't "buy" it either.
>>
>> Of course we do! Once again she is just wrong.
>
> You go right on believing all that government oversight is actually
> overseeing anything. Feel free to pay the higher prices, too. Ignore the
> fact that others agree no one is getting getting anything special simply
> because a label says "organic".

Did I say government? No.